first prize by william hailiang chen + mark francis tynan + shireen hamdan from uk
bright LED international design competition
– co organized by designboom and gwangju biennale foundation, korea –
the jury was composed of humberto and fernando campana, designers, BRAZIL hani rashid, asymptote architecture studio, USA carole guevin, netdiver.net, CANADA jo byeokho, dean, hongik industrial design graduate school, KOREA lee soonin, GDB2007 general director, KOREA sin sangyeong, chief, LG design management center, KOREA sin sangdu, president, light & shader, KOREA masafumi katsukawa, lighting technician, ITALY birgit lohmann, designboom
3431 designers from 92 different countries have participated.
2nd prize by niklas lofberg from finland
3rd prize ex equo by rafael morgan from brazil
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